No one who appreciates the much heavier, propulsive riffing of the 'Pond should fail to snag this release; the twin guitar attack of the Brothers Gibbons is at its most molassive here, both in the overall "thickness" of the sound, or in the way that it can stretch and saturate. It doesn't have that much in common with the more refined, expansive sound the band began pursuing on "Dilate", released a year later (and brought nearly to perfection in "On the Ellipse" and "Ticket Crystals"), yet longtime listeners can definitely hear the nascent underpinnings characterizing those releases within the gritty,heavily modulated, cyclical, mantra-like woodshedding recorded here. "Living Testament", the first track,embodies this perfectly, as does "Black Turban" and "Yayaya." "From the Sky", the 31+ minute epic that closes the CD, points in the direction that is to come from under revolving feedback, with its heavily layered guitar sound and transcendental passages of gentle woodwind, flute weaving its way through some of the most lysergic guitar work they have ever committed to recording. If you keep going back to "Big Laughing Jym", "Lapsed", and 'Set and Setting" than you really should pick up "Cypher Documents".
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